Director of Finance And Accounting
📋 Role Overview & Responsibilities
Director of Finance- Top Accounting and Finance RoleA rapidly growing technology tied organization is looking to hire a Director of Finance to lead their accounting and finance function and support the CEO. With the organization scaling quickly the company needs a hands-on finance leader who can both lead a small accounting and reporting team while also building a more formal budgeting, forecasting, cash management and operational analysis process. The company needs someone who has been through rapid growth with an organization and led the build out of an accounting and finance function to support it. This is more of a Controller+ type capacity with the ability to move more toward CFO work with continued growth. Chicago based headquarters with preferred candidate being local but remote set up outside of occasional travel.
Objectives of this role:Oversight of financial reporting, general accounting and operational accounting Point person for outside audit and tax firmFormalizing budgeting, forecasting and cash management processDeveloping KPIs and operational analysis to enable the CEO and business to make decisions Ad hoc analysis and special projects around expansion and profitability enhancementLeverage NetSuite to get more out of the system
Required skills:10+ years of experience including an accounting foundation and several years of finance experience Accounting or Finance Degree required, CPA preferredExperience with a high growth organization greater than $50millExperience supporting a CEO or working in a highly entrepreneurial environmentExperience with services, technology or an industry with a re-occurring revenue model preferredNetSuite experience highly preferred
If you are interested in this Director of Finance role or want to connect on the market, please email your resume to Brian.Esko@LHH.com or apply here.
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